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CHAPTEK V 



WITH reference to the roots and plants cultivated for the use 

 of cattle, the turnip claims our first notice. Under this head 

 we include the Swedish kind, or Euta Baga. 



" It may be considered," says an authority on this subject, 

 " that the most advantageous mode of consuming turnips is to 

 draw them and cut them in slices in the field, there to be 

 consumed in troughs by sheep, to whom corn or oil -cake, as 

 well as hay, is regularly given. 



"When the crop of turnips is abundant, part of them may 

 be stored for the cattle in the yard or fatting stalls, and for 

 the milch cows and heifers. They will require nothing but 

 good straw if they have plenty of turnips, and.no hay need be 

 used, unless it be for the horses ; and even they will thrive 

 well on Swedish turnips and straw, with a small quantity of 

 oats. Turnips are often left in the field all winter, which 

 greatly deteriorates them If they cannot be fed off before 

 Christmas, they should be taken up with the tops on, and set 

 close together, covered with the tops, on a piece of grass, 

 in some dry spot. They will thus be quite sufficiently pro 

 tected from the frost ; or the tops may be cut off, within an 

 inch of the crown of the root, and the turnips be then stored 

 in long clamps, five feet wide and four feet high, sloped like 

 the roof a house, and covered with straw and earth, in which 

 state they will keep till they are wanted. It is advantageous 

 to have different varieties of turnips, which will come to per- 

 fection in succession ; and it is useful to sow some at 

 different times for this purpose." 



Among other vegetables useful as food for cattle, the beet 

 tribe claim notice. The root of the field beet, mangold- 

 wurzel, or mangel-worzel (Beta altissirna), which was. long 

 known in Germany, was introduced at the close of the last 

 century, it is said, by Dr. Lettsom, a physician of great 



